Susanne Kreuz

Designer in Malmö, Sweden

Member since July 8, 2020

Susanne contributed to digital projects in global tech companies and social startups since 2001. With a background in psychology, she knows how to ask the right questions. By immersing herself in research and analysis, Susanne ensures that products and services fit the market’s needs. Her ability to create a strong UX vision and build a strategic roadmap turns ideas into smart features even for complex solutions. Susanne loves to enable agile teams in collaborative prototyping and user testing.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Verivox—Improving the Usability of an Online Portal
- Usability Testing
- Remote Usability Testing
- Expert Reviews
- Portals
- Heuristic Analysis
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Remote User Testing
- User Journeys
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Human-centered Design (HCD)
- Research Synthesis
- User Testing
- Usability
- Interviews
- Analysis
- Guidelines
- Style Guides
- UX Design
- Interviewing
- User Feedback
- Design Validation
- Cognitive Walkthroughs
- Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
- Apps
- UX Analysis
- Customer Journeys
- Customer Experience
- Research
- Persona Design
- User Experience (UX)
- UX Audits
Secret Escapes—Preparing A/B Testing With Help of Usability Testing
- A/B Testing
- Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
- Remote User Testing
- Remote Usability Testing
- Research Synthesis
- Usability Testing
- Hypothesis Testing
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Human-centered Design (HCD)
- User Testing
- Remote Work
- Usability
- Interviews
- UX Design
- Interviewing
- User Feedback
- Design Validation
- User Interviews
- Customer Experience
- Qualitative Reports
- Research
- User Experience (UX)
Deutsche Bahn—Validating Hypotheses Through A/B Testing of a Booking Portal
- Design Validation
- A/B Testing
- Personas
- Personalization
- Usability
- Axure RP Pro
- Hypothesis Testing
- Cognitive Walkthroughs
- User Experience (UX)
- Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
- Optimizely
- User Flows
- UI Design
- Mockups
- UX Prototyping
- Low-fidelity Mockups
- Screenflows
- Information Architecture (IA)
- User Journeys
- User Stories
- Design Thinking
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Human-centered Design (HCD)
- Usability Guidelines
- Analysis
- Guidelines
- User Research
- UX Research
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- User Feedback
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Conceptual Design
- User Personas
- UX Analysis
- Ideation
- Ideation Workshops
- Design Workshops
- Customer Journeys
- CX Strategy
- Customer Experience
- Customer Discovery
- Persona Design
- Prototyping
- UX Audits
- Mobile Design
BORM-INFORMATIK AG—Applying UX Design to Improve an ERP System
- Axure RP Pro
- User Research
- Design Thinking
- Google Design Sprints
- Agile Transformation
- Research Synthesis
- Story Mapping
- Mockups
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Interactive Prototypes
- UX Prototyping
- Low-fidelity Mockups
- Process Flows
- Screenflows
- UX Strategy
- Mobile
- Balsamiq Mockups
- UX Pattern Design
- Usability Testing
- Workshop Facilitation
- Training & Training Content Development
- Prototyping on Paper (POP)
- User Journeys
- Remote User Testing
- User Stories
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Human-centered Design (HCD)
- Stakeholder Interviews
- Requirements & Specifications
- Usability Guidelines
- User Testing
- Remote Work
- Usability
- Interviews
- Analysis
- Guidelines
- Style Guides
- UX Research
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- Interviewing
- Remote Usability Testing
- User Feedback
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Design Validation
- Personalization
- Cognitive Walkthroughs
- Conceptual Design
- Apps
- Training
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative User Research
- User Personas
- Personas
- Agile UX
- User Interviews
- UX Analysis
- Agile Project Management
- Agile Software Development
- Agile
- User Journey Maps
- Ideation
- Ideation Workshops
- Product Design
- Design Workshops
- Customer Journeys
- CX Strategy
- Customer Experience
- User Surveys
- Qualitative Reports
- Customer Discovery
- Research
- Persona Design
- Prototyping
- Design Systems
- Visual Design
- UX Audits
- Mobile App Design
- Mobile Design
Kaptio Travel :: Designing a Booking Feature for A Travel App Based on Salesforce
- User Feedback
- Axure RP Pro
- Click Dummies
- Low-fidelity Prototypes
- Salesforce
- Personas
- Task Flows
- Usability
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- UI Design
- Mockups
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Interactive Prototypes
- UX Prototyping
- Low-fidelity Mockups
- Process Flows
- Screenflows
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- UX Pattern Design
- User Journeys
- User Stories
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Human-centered Design (HCD)
- Stakeholder Interviews
- Requirements & Specifications
- Remote Work
- Guidelines
- Style Guides
- User Research
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- User Personas
- UX Analysis
- Agile Software Development
- Agile Project Management
- Agile
- Ideation
- Ideation Workshops
- Product Design
- Customer Journeys
- User Experience (UX)
- Prototyping
- Visual Design
- UX Audits
OB/CC :: Prototyping a Mobile Shopping  App
- Apps
- Usability Testing
- Design Thinking
- Conceptual Design
- Prototyping on Paper (POP)
- User Testing
- Training
- POP
- Human-centered Design (HCD)
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Paper Prototyping
- Low-fidelity Mockups
- Screenflows
- Mobile
- Training & Training Content Development
- Workshop Facilitation
- User Journeys
- User Stories
- Usability
- Analysis
- User Research
- UX Research
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- User Feedback
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Design Validation
- Qualitative Research
- User Personas
- Personas
- Ideation
- Ideation Workshops
- Product Design
- Design Workshops
- Customer Journeys
- Service Design
- CX Strategy
- Customer Experience
- Persona Design
- User Experience (UX)
- Prototyping
- Mobile App Design
- Mobile Design
BOSCH Automotive: How to Design a Design Sprint?
- Personas
- Google Design Sprints
- UX Workshops
- Jobs to be Done (JTBD)
- Story Mapping
- Information Architecture (IA)
- Workshop Facilitation
- Prototyping on Paper (POP)
- User Stories
- Design Thinking
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Human-centered Design (HCD)
- Stakeholder Interviews
- User Testing
- Usability
- Interviews
- Analysis
- User Research
- UX Research
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- Interviewing
- User Feedback
- Conceptual Design
- Qualitative Research
- User Personas
- User Interviews

Employment

Founder
2015 - PRESENT
Susanne Kreuz :: UX and Information Design
- Collaborated and engaged with people from a wide background and with a different knowledge. My focus is on analysis, research, and testing for web and mobile apps. I spread the word about UX topics and methods in design related blogs.
- Facilitated 3-5 day seminars and Google Design Sprints—onsite Europe and remote. My target group is an international audience of the product and graphic designers, project managers, developers, and content writers.
- Reviewed given scenarios according to common usability heuristics for an online portal to compare service providers such as telecommunication or power suppliers and sign the best contract. For details, see the VERIVOX project in my portfolio.
- Created hypothesis and test variants for the analytics team to run quantitative A/B testing and optimize the conversion rate of the website for the German railway transport company DB. For details, see the Deutsche Bahn project in my portfolio.
- Designed an intuitive user interface and user-friendly interactions for a B2B Salesforce web app for the travel industry. For details, see the Kaptio project in my portfolio.
- Trained and skilled-up a web agency's team with UX methods, guided them through the conception process, and innovated ideas for the interaction and interface design of two new mobile consumer apps. For details, see the OB//CC project in my portfolio.
- Redesigned a mobile consumer app and invented a new concept and information architecture.
- Identified pain points on a big telecommunication's eCommerce shop and order process with the help of an expert review. My recommendations helped product managers and concepters to improve the user experience and developers to fix bugs.
Technologies: UX Pattern Design, Information Architecture (IA), UX Strategy, Process Flows, Sketch, WordPress, High-fidelity Prototypes, Mockups, User Flows, Figma, Affinity Designer, Slack, Asana, Jira, Affinity Photo, Adobe Suite, HTML, Axure, User Experience (UX), UX Research
Senior UX Designer
2019 - 2021
BORM-Informatik AG, Switzerland
- Introduced human-centered design and facilitated collaborative workshops such as Google Design Sprint to make non-designers quickly familiar with iterative prototyping and testing and build the ERP and CAD system according to the user's needs.
- Defined an end-to-end process so that UX activities fit into agile development sprints. Invented the "BORM to be wild" slogan and logo to communicate and brand all UX design activities in a smart way.
- Trained customer project leads and developers in customer-centricity and provided best practices on how to create scenarios, business workflows, and processes based on storytelling and sketching.
- Analyzed the usability of shipped features and reviewed the existing UX and UI design against common usability heuristics and UX and UI design standards. Identified and prioritized issues and proposed solutions and fixes.
- Discovered personas, use cases, and user stories with the help of interviewing business experts and partners, competitor analysis, and market research.
- Discussed and prioritized requirements with the product manager and my development team. Created epics and user stories in Jira and refined stories regularly by breaking content into smaller tasks to plan sprints and develop features accordingly.
- Ideated solutions, and prototyped and tested flows and interactions for a new digital creditor workflow that supports Swiss QR codes. The paperless process enables accountants, project leads, and managing directors to control and pay invoices.
- Developed the BORM UX vision, created a UX strategy, and built a goal-oriented roadmap. Provided five guiding principles to unify the design of all products and devices, and guarantee one consistent and seamless user experience.
- Involved partners from the timber industry in the early stage of the product design process and validated design ideas by user testing of comic style concepts, user flows, and wireframes. Moderated (remote) usability tests of interactive prototypes.
- Invented a project poster with a structured approach, addressing problem-oriented questions to identify user groups, their needs, and tasks. The goal was to ensure that business requirements were user-centered, transparent, and understood.
Technologies: UX Pattern Design, UX Strategy, Process Flows, UX Prototyping, Interactive Prototypes, High-fidelity Prototypes, Mockups, UI Design, Paper Prototyping, Miro, User Flows, Teams, Microsoft, Slack, Confluence, Jira, Affinity Designer, Balsamiq, Axure, User Experience (UX), UX Research, Mobile Design
UX Researcher
2018 - 2019
Crowdhouse AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- Created interview guidelines and conducted qualitative interviews with people selling real estate, such as private house owners, semi-professional investors, and professional brokers.
- Set up in-house and remote usability tests for people selling real estate. Applied guerrilla methods and conducted hallway tests with internal colleagues to collect feedback on the relaunched website.
- Recruited end-users to learn about the Swiss real estate market through customer-facing events and a landing page. Worked together with an external agency to recruit test users for persona interviews.
- Facilitated workshops with the product owner and my squad team to ideate new features for the web platform. Collected assumptions and hypotheses to write user stories and create the product roadmap.
- Created reports to share my research findings and presented insights to the English-speaking product team. Translated content and helped to build a bridge with the Swiss German-speaking business team.
- Gathered information from stakeholders and created a customer journey of private people selling a multi-apartment house.
- Developed a process to integrate user research activities into my squad team's agile UX design process and roll out in the company.
- Discovered and tested research tools to professionally manage the user research pool and researcher's activities.
Technologies: Research Synthesis, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Dovetail, Lookback, Slack, Asana, Axure, User Experience (UX), UX Research
Senior Information Developer
2013 - 2015
SAP SE, Walldorf/Baden, Germany
- Innovated user assistance and created a proof of concepts with my products and innovations team. Worked closely with product owners, UX design strategists, and business data analysts in an agile environment to match people's needs and expectations.
- Designed an additional layer that integrates contextual help on the SaaS UI to support users best after discovering that people struggled when using web apps built on SAP HANA Cloud.
- Managed a team of information developers located in Germany, the UK, and Canada, while the agile development teams were located around the globe.
- Created a workstream in Jira and contributed the know-how to an internal wiki to exchange information and make decisions transparent while communicating with people across many cultures and time zones.
- Defined the terminology, reviewed UI texts, and created online help. I migrated content to XML and restructured topics and guides according to the new information architecture and authoring guidelines.
- Created and published several case studies about UX design, strategy, and design thinking methods on their website.
Technologies: Information Architecture (IA), Balsamiq Mockups, Software as a Service (SaaS), Process Flows, UX Prototyping, Paper Prototyping, Miro, Story Mapping, User Flows, IXIASOFT, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Balsamiq, XML, SAP, User Experience (UX), Content
Founder
2003 - 2013
Edox Technical Communication, Heidelberg, Germany
- Documented complex business software for global companies such as SAP, their partners, and customers. I created structured content according to the user's goals and applied a personalized, conversational communication style.
- Helped product and development teams remotely and onsite to improve their documentation deliverables and processes. I have tested, chosen, and implemented many content management systems to automate online publishing.
- Contributed with content to large websites and supported relaunch projects by simplifying the language and navigation. I created marketing material for newsletters and landing pages.
- Strengthened relationships with journalists and discovered new media channels. I helped to grow the market for products such as INGRADA, a geographical information system for professionals and citizens.
- Interviewed stakeholders and researched information about digital products and trends. My articles and advertorials have regularly been published in print and online, in special interest magazines and web portals.
Technologies: Information Architecture (IA), WordPress, Adobe Illustrator, User Flows, Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management Systems (CMS), Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, XML, Microsoft Word
Technical Writer Software
2001 - 2003
ibo Software GmbH Wettenberg, Germany
- Documented business software for different target groups such as end-users and consultants. Created and published online help and manuals, FAQs, installation guides, and release notes.
- Worked closely with business and end-users from the industry to define the terminology and information architecture. Consulted translators to ensure a good match with other languages.
- Developed a style guide for authors to ensure consistency in wording and brand language.
- Explored several content management systems to transform the authoring process from print to online publishing and created a SWOT analysis to choose the best.
- Created training material and reference cards for key users in the financial industry.
Technologies: Information Architecture (IA), Process Flows, Adobe Illustrator, User Flows, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Office, Adobe RoboHelp, XML

Education

Master's Degree in Art History, Psychology, European Ethnology
1995 - 1998
Philipps University - Marburg, Germany
Coursework in Art History, Psychology
1989 - 1994
Justus Liebig University - Gießen, Germany

Certifications

UX Designer
MAY 2015 - PRESENT
CareerFoundry, Berlin, Germany
Technical Writer
FEBRUARY 2002 - PRESENT
Technical Academy, Esslingen, Germany
Publishing Assistant/Marketing
FEBRUARY 2001 - PRESENT
Klett WBS, Frankfurt, Germany

Experience

Usability Testing15 years
User Research10 years
SaaS Design9 years
Requirements9 years
Prototyping7 years
Product Vision6 years
Axure RP Pro6 years
Google Design Sprints3 years

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